The day after I blogged about how great ECing with Joseph is I missed nearly every one of his pees for two days. Things have been improving ever since, however and now we’re back to a pretty good average.
Joseph loves clapping his hands, especially with people.
He is increasingly aware and coordinated. He crawls around obstacles to get to his desired destination. I first observed this April 20th when he saw me open the balcony doors and he crawled as fast as he could around his toys to get outside. If I close the doors before he gets there he throws a fit. I’m learning how to balance real needs with fits. It’s not always easy to tell when he’s hurt and when he’s just made he can’t have something.
And speaking of crawling, he goes FAST! We need to get a video of it someday. He’s still not interested in standing or walking without support.
He pushes buttons. When Daddy helps Joseph brush his teeth Joseph gets to turn the bathroom light on and off (it’s a button).
Joseph likes being on the balcony and crawling outside of the house. When he’s on a surface he doesn’t like he’ll lift his right knee up so that only the foot touches and then gingerly crawl using his right foot and his left knee/foot. It’s terribly cute.
I’ve been enjoying working on our garden. I have no clue about gardens and all the instruction books confuse me more and fail to give the basic instructions I think I need. Despite not knowing what to do and taking too long researching and getting nowhere, I’ve finally just started trying things and whether it’s right or not I’m having fun with it. I’ve worked the ground to our 170 sq. ft. garden entirely by hand (and with hand tools). It’s starting to look tamed and I’m proud of how I can grab 15 minutes or so of time when Joseph can entertain himself to work on it. I’m also trying to grow parsley, chives, marjoram, and cherry tomatoes from seeds indoors. We don’t get that much sun, so we’ll see how it goes. The chives and marjoram are sprouting already after just a few days! It’s so much fun to grow stuff! It’s almost doesn’t matter if I get a good harvest.
